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Ryan Fretwell and Carlos Gomez.
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Elon Musk has voiced concerns about the way Tesla has been covered in the media recently, questioning the legitimacy of the media’s ethics and connection with the truth. Here’s some of that inconvenient reporting from the past year.

With Amazon’s surprise acquisition of eero, podcasters everywhere expressed nervousness about the day Bezos Co. buys Squarespace and there is no one left to buy podcast ads. Not us though. We’re sustained by a generous grant from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This week: window cleaning robots, rumblings from the Genius Grove, ...…

If there’s two things we know about hockey, it’s that you never leave your goaltender alone when Sorenson is on the move and you definitely should have launched your streaming video project five years ago when it would have actually mattered.* 🥅. Your hosts disagree about that last one a little bit. Links: SF Giants’ home now called Oracle Park ...…

Tim wrote a letter. 📉. Links: The One Issue the Left and Right Can Agree On | The New Republic Click for Philips Hue – RunLessWire Raj Mathai on Twitter: "Exclusive: #Raiders and #SFGiants remain in talks re: #ATTPark. Raiders could play in SF for 2019 season. Team source tells me ‘this is a distinct possibility’. #NFL… https://t.co/I9fcv66Kyo" ...…

Big news. We're brokering a partnership between Uber Eats and August Home to bring you mimosas from the kitchen straight to your couch via an app. Tech workers in the Mission will love it. In this holiday spectacular, we say good riddance to Paul Ryan, add a warm glow to your Mac's screen, and look for the bright spots in 2018. Items 1 and 3 ma ...…

Okay, follow me here. Pre-made Christmas lights for your roof that spell out “stay in your lane”. Get our lawyers on the phone — it’s going to be big. This week: cable companies, gutter robots, and Carlos does some mythbusting by explaining the profound unexceptionalism of 2018 Apple. You can’t have your cake and eat it too, and then sell the l ...…

With the holidays upon us, it’s so important we not forget the reason for the season: Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers mascot. This week: an even-handed evaluation of how unmistakably doomed Apple is, Google Home Hub and the voice assistant market, and Away’s new $700M suitcase. 🥅. Links: Clippers Mascot Chuck | LA Clippers | Los Angeles Clipper ...…

Life comes with some hard truths. For instance: your time on earth is limited, iPads will likely always be poor productivity devices, and the most difficult of all: JoJo probably isn’t writing her own tweets. We’re sorry. This week: 538's projections on the Lakers taking the Senate in 2020, Disney+, M&M minis, and Ryan sneakily embraces the mul ...…

"It's been said that iPads are the worst form of computing, except for all those other forms that have been tried." - Winston Chruchill, working at an Apple Store, probably. This week: crawl spaces, elections, and Internet shoes for thirty somethings. 👟. Links: Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King | Netflix Official Site Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj ...…

If the past three decades have proven anything, it’s that new software solves every problem This week: diving into to OmniFocus 3, getting things done, and fractured attention as a service, FAaaS for short. 🤯. Links: MoviePass is now forcing former users to opt out of new plan or risk being charged - The Verge Buzz Andersen on Twitter: "*Slaps ...…

“imma let you finish but the lakers had one of the best sports dynasties of all time.” Not quite, but 1989 and 2014 share more in common than you might expect! This week: color temperature, Guy Fieri, an in-car navigation summer miracle, and iOS automation with our pal, British Siri. 🇬🇧. Links: The Giants have finally won a game in September : ...…

Like the Swallows back to Capistrano each year, as do the press to Cupertino every September. This week: Apple hits the clay with their new iPhone Tennis and Tennis Max, fall detection gets added to the Apple Watch just in time for PSL season, and Ryan does his best to argue a small uppercase “S” and a lowercase “s” are different things. 😑. Lin ...…

Stumpgrades and cold brew, smart homes and scooters. This week: Ryan is tired of seeing those Uber ads while Carlos is watching Giants games just for that one Buster Posey commercial at Picco. 🛴. Links: Uber puts CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in ads to save its reputation Watch for it: Uber spending up to $500M on new ad campaign Buster Posey on Twitte ...…

With Twitter and @jack struggling to make the hard choices about their platform, we play a round of everyone's favorite game: Incompetence, Ambivalence, or Willful Abdication of Responsibility! This week: Pepsi ramps up adoption of Apple Pay, Tesla moves to integrate SodaStreams into the Model S, and Saul Goodman is installed as Uber's new CFO. ...…

After a month away for summer vacation, we’re back — and for one week and one week only, this is an all good news show. Join us to hear tales of marital bliss, calming Italian mountain roads, contactless transit payments, and the best canned cold brew you can find this side of The East Cut. 🥂. Links: Sporty (@sporty_thedog) • Instagram photos a ...…

And now the 2-2 pitch. A swing and a high drive to left. Runners back. It is out of here! A, uh, 107 meter home run for the Montreal Expos? This week: Ryan bricks his electric car, the DOJ takes another swing at blocking the AT&T/Time Warner merger, and Apple drops a mid-cycle diss track for the MacBook Pro haters. It’s lit, fam. 🔥. Links: Metr ...…

Location, location, location. LeBron is leaving the dreary, post-RNC wasteland that is the city of Cleveland for the blue skies of Los Angeles, while the Apple Maps team works on charting out just how far it is from Cupertino to the Canadian province of Bublé-ton. This week: taking your electric car down the California coast, Casper out-Caspers ...…

If a bipartisan coalition of legislators installed some Hue lights and a Nest in the Capitol building, would that be enough to make it a ‘Smart House’ … of Representatives? Ha. It’s funny because compromise is dead and we’re all so screwed. This week: eight of nine Supreme Court justices make it through busy season, Carlos gets peer pressured i ...…

Legend has it, the original WALL-E screenplay was actually about the development of the next generation Mac Pro but was scrapped when it didn’t test well with the pro workflows team. This week, we go to the movies and stack rank all the Pixar films. Also: AMC pulls a MoviePass, ESPN’s AM radio aesthetic, and the donkey that couldn’t find its wa ...…

Steal a pod on the road, steal a Doritos Locos Taco. This week: public/private pizza pothole partnerships, the return of Still or Sparkling, and a tale of two Amazon retail concepts. Re: last week's absence. We were trying out App Limits and locked ourselves out of Skype. Whoops. 🤷‍♂️. Links: Domino’s Offers to Fix Potholes in Your Neighborhood ...…

Ryan has low expectations for WWDC, Carlos has low expectations of Disney, and Larry Bird has low expectations of scooter regulatory compliance. This week: Basketball Twitter®, grilled cheese, and assigning a special counsel to french fries. 🏀. Links: 9 French Fry Styles, Ranked - The New York Times The Fourth Estate: Seasons, Episodes, Cast, C ...…

Elon Musk has voiced concerns about the way Tesla has been covered in the media recently, questioning the legitimacy of the media’s ethics and connection with the truth. Here’s some of that inconvenient reporting from the past year. Consumer Reports reports “big flaws” in the Model 3 Tesla fires factory workers suspected of unionization activit ...…

When the algae blooms, sometimes you just have to do the show standing up. This week: counting the rings on your suitcase, IKEA’s new butterfly switch meatballs, and recovering sunken treasure in the San Francisco Bay. 🛴. Links: Away Luggage's Latest 'Star Wars' Collaboration Is Perfect for Kids - Condé Nast Traveler Lime is raising up to $500 ...…

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a brand marketing and IP licensing deal was forged between a direct-to-consumer luggage startup and mouse themed mega-corporation. The UPS driver was their only hope. This week: speculation on when LeBron will get tired of all the winning, grabbing a mimosa at the multiplex, and we pour one out for the ...…

More cardboard boxes, more weekends spent in a crawl space — that's the power of Home Depot. This week: Pocket Casts gets acquired for an undisclosed number of tote bags, some well placed little birdies, and the ketchup Rorschach test for food. 🏡. Links: Shake Shack stakes out its 1st San Francisco location, in Cow Hollow - SFGate Nokia to sell ...…

We wanted you to hear this straight from us before someone goes and leaks it to Bloomberg News. Okay. Ready? Opening up this wall would really brighten up your ranch style home! This week: Bird gets its wings clipped by the city, GOAT iPhone Power Rankings presented by FanDuel, and we try our hand at being eccentric billionaires — minus the bil ...…

The American dream is alive and well — turns out it was just hiding in Waco, Texas. This week: Congress asks if Facebook is the worst house on the best block, Uber bets on e-bikes adding some curb appeal, and Apple's professional product line as the ultimate metaphorical fixer upper. 👷🏻‍♀️. Links: The Magnolia Story: Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines, ...…

Hi, Listener. We have your large Silken Splendor and a pound of fair trade media industry news to take home. Plus: Apple's rumored move away from Intel processors for the Mac, Buster Posey's new restaurant, and Backstage®️ presented by American Express. Made with love by Carlos and Ryan. 🤗. Links: San Francisco will regulate electric scooter sh ...…

That’s a real nice democracy you have there. Would be a shame if something were to happen to it. This week: Facebook has its psychographs full with a privacy controversy that just might stick, Uber’s autonomous driving project is involved in its first fatal crash, and Apple heads to the Windy City. 🌬. Links: Chuck | LA Clippers Petition · Make ...…

Elon Musk thinks he can get to Mars by 2019 but can’t even get a supercharger installed at King’s Cross station for muggles to charge their Model 3s. This week: midterm elections, sad hamburgers, an update on wearables, and much ado about iPhone X. 🔌. Links: Jackie Chan and his two golden retrievers Jones and JJ. - Album on Imgur Subaru Dog Tes ...…

In light of the recent boom of big money moving into spoken audio, we are proud to announce we have become the official podcast partner of the Washington Wizards. This week: airport wine, the health of the Mac, and an investigation into Italy’s most prized export. 🇮🇹. Links: MoviePass CEO claims $10/month movie ticket service tracks where you g ...…

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world there was money to be made in streaming music. This week: Ryan and Carlos have a difference of opinion about Spotify’s IPO filing, Amazon really wants you to buy those other six waffle makers you were looking at, and proven tips for becoming an eBay power seller. 🏷. Links: Verne ...…

"Your honor. If the State of California and City of San Francisco didn't want us Uber drivers to use bike lanes as UberX waiting areas, you shouldn't have painted them the same color as a cactus. That's entrapment." This week: spending money to make money, hobby horses, and one of your hosts forgets the teachers edition for his digital life. 📙. ...…

Struggling to break our Olympic fever, the conversation gets weird early and often; this is one of the good ones. This week: Mikey B. and the NYT failing all the way to the bank, 4K uphill skiing, Omni’s roadmap for 2018, and PepsiCo’s sparkling water ambitions run afoul of M. Bublé. 💦 . Links: Your Dog is Doing His Business on My Lawn Again! D ...…

Much like the upcoming Amazon/JPM/Berkshire Hathaway health care experiment, we too are “free from profit-making incentives and constraints”. This week: production cut rumors for iPhone X, sizing up Apple’s 2017, and starting out 2018 centered by meditating with Jeff. 🛎. Links: CNET - MoviePass drops 10 top AMC theaters. Will you still want it? ...…

If a HomePod debuts in a forest and nobody is around to give Siri a request it can’t answer, does it really exist? This week: Amazon’s line-less concept store Amazon Go opens to record lines, Ryan hits the slopes and one of us gets hoodwinked by the Coca-Cola corporation. ⛷. Links: Nintendo Announces Nintendo Labo, A Wild New Experiment For Swi ...…

Grab your shovel and put on your best suit, it’s time to market the hell out of this corproate tax giveaway. This week: Coke is thirsting after those adventurous millennial consumers while Walmart and Apple go fishing for a pat on the back from Fox & Friends’ biggest fan. 🍊 . Links: The truth about Walmart’s new bonuses – ThinkProgress Paul Kru ...…

This week's episode is a rerun. It's all new content, sure, but it feels like watching Hamilton for a seventh time — rewarding except you already know the lyrics by heart. On the docket: economic nationalism, unpopular policy positions, and our sincerest apologies to Bowser and Princess Peach. Links: The Day's Most Fascinating News with Dave Pe ...…

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of a garbage fire of a year. This week, we look back on 2017 and search for the gems in a sea of fake news and unsold Snapchat glasses. Plus: Disney’s mousetrap caught a Fox while net neutrality gets the golden scissors treatment. 🦊 . Links: Disney Makes $52.4 Billion Deal for 21st Century Fox i ...…

For any number of reasons, sometimes in life you just have to retire certain things. E.g.,: Kobe Bryant’s jersey numbers or a beloved pair of sneakers. We think the New York Times might want to look into that. #theupshot This week: some wishes come true, some go unanswered, and sometimes you just want to watch Netflix without big data being jud ...…

We regret to inform listeners that due to a lack of reciprocity in our business relationship with Amazon, we will no longer be offering our Chef’s Specials for purchase using Dash buttons or through Amazon Fresh. In progress Prime Air drone deliveries will be rerouted to the nearest Amazon Locker. On this week’s program: pushers, dreamers, acqu ...…

How exactly does one make a wreath out of cactus? Asking on behalf of an ethically troubled ride sharing company. This week: Bublé, flip flops, revenue matching, and iPads — again. 🎁 . Links: Google finally fixes the burger emoji Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People - Bloomberg ಠ_ಠ on Twitter: "hello from 30,000 feet! he ...…

Just when we thought we were Out of the Woods, streaming Taylor Swift’s new album Reputation may be just a figment of our Wildest Dreams. For you see, it seems there’s still some Bad Blood, a story we know All Too Well. Look what you made her do, meager streaming royalties… This week: Star War, portrait mode fatigue, cautionary tales, and Derek ...…

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